English IV Final Study Guide

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Across
  1. 2. This WWI battle forms the backdrop to Churchill's "We will fight them on the beaches" speech
  2. 5. This fictional place is the setting of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
  3. 6. The English war poet who authored "Dulce et Decorum Est"
  4. 7. The hero of the Geats who slays the monster Grendel
  5. 9. A satirical essay written by Jonathan Swift that caricatures elite politicians to draw attention to the plight of Ireland's peasants
  6. 10. The W.B. Yeats Poem alluded to in the title of Chinua Achebe's novel
  7. 16. A tool that readers can use to discern more in literature
  8. 20. The draft to this American war forms the backdrop to this Tim O'Brien short story
  9. 21. The name of the post-colonial novel that tells the story of Okonkwo's tragedy
  10. 22. The punctuation mark used to combine two closely related independent clauses
  11. 23. The punctuation mark used to combine clauses when the second further explains the first
  12. 25. A device of literature and rhetoric employed by Shakespeare, Spark, and Chopin in which the audience knows more than the characters of a story
  13. 26. The historical event that is satirized in Animal Farm
  14. 27. An error of grammar in which two independent clauses are joined by a comma
  15. 30. A type of writing that uses humor to deliver social criticism
  16. 31. The school of literature focused on class conflict in literature
  17. 33. The Danish kingdom in which Hamlet is set
  18. 36. The author of Into Thin Air
  19. 37. The term given to a work of literature that symbolically delivers a commentary on a broader political or historical event i.e. Animal Farm
  20. 38. Middles Ages text written by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1400
  21. 39. Type of literary character epitomized by the Parson
Down
  1. 1. The tendency of this form of government to lead to absolute corruption is the main theme of Animal Farm
  2. 3. This quality of Okonkwo's makes his tragic flaw the opposite of Hamlet's
  3. 4. An institution criticized by Chaucer for its corruption
  4. 8. The rhetorical appeal centered around the author and his or her credibility
  5. 10. The term for the cause of the hero's demise in tragedies like Hamlet
  6. 11. The Shakespeare character responsible for the death of King Hamlet
  7. 12. This Southeast Asian country is the setting for an Orwell short story about colonial discipline
  8. 13. The porcine character of Animal Farm who represents Joseph Stalin
  9. 14. The Queen of England when Hamlet was written
  10. 15. The school of literature that attempts to reconnect literature and history
  11. 17. This Russian politician is symbolized by the character of Snowball in Animal Farm
  12. 18. The term given to the "voice" in which a text is written
  13. 19. The quality that Swift was advocating for in his most famous work of satire
  14. 24. First character to die in Hamlet
  15. 28. A device of literature and rhetoric in which the audience encounters the opposite of what it expects i.e. men laughing after hanging someone
  16. 29. The school of literature focused on the treatment of women in literature
  17. 32. The author of Animal Farm and 1984
  18. 34. An error of grammar in which an essential element of a sentence is missing
  19. 35. This rash Shakespearean character slays Hamlet and performs the same role as Chaucer's Parson